Monthly Archives: January 2005

Accessing a Developing Application

This isn’t a very involved tip, but I could have really saved my butt a few weeks ago when I couldn’t get an updated version of hedmaster deployed, just hours before it was scheduled to go live. This explains how to make a WebObjects application on your development mac temporarily available to outside users, either for testing or […]

Fix old broken URLs with mod_rewrite

“Despite the tons of examples and docs, mod_rewrite is voodoo. Damned cool voodoo, but still voodoo.” — Brian Moore

I’ve been using mod_rewrite for some time now for various things, but just recently I’ve really started diving into it in order to make cool URIs for skillet.com. The document root is presently a mess, […]

OKI OSID Unit Testing

As part of hedmaster I’ve tried to implement as many of the OKI Specs as have made sense. I’m working on writing extensive JUnit test cases to thoroughly test hedmaster, and I got to thinking about writing a test suite to check for adherence to the OKI Specs. Because the OSID interfaces are designed to enable “drop […]